Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.

Homily for Monday in the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in the Gladstone Seafarers Chapel, Qld. "‘Come,’ they said ‘let us reach an understanding with the pagans surrounding us, for since we separated ourselves from them many misfortunes have overtaken us.’ This proposal proved accep…

Homily for Friday in the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld. "Naturally stupid are all men who have not known God and who, from the good things that are seen, have not been able to discover Him-who-is, or, by studying the works, have fa…

Homily for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld. "A perfect wife – who can find her? She is far beyond the price of pearls. Her husband’s heart has confidence in her, from her he will derive no little profit. Advantage and not hurt s…

Homily for Thursday in the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time, Optional Memorial for Saint Columbanus, Abbot and Missionary, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld. "The commissioners of King Antiochus who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them sac…